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These are fucking awful times.
Have higher standards.
The Running Man.
It'll be funny and poetic until we all get to watch a contestant die for the first time during a prime time live event .... and the crowd roars and the ratings go through the roof as everyone realizes ... the gladiatorial games to the death have returned .... and this time we can stream it!!!!
Bread and circuses.
The United States is dying
Why does my bread keep going up in price then?
If bread's too expensive you can always eat cake.
Trumpflix, but that show is pay per view with the premium plus $199 a month plan. $399 pay per view of course.
The other show available is a live feed of the torture at gitmo and El Salvador
I'd pirate it and not watch it just on principle
We have the Millionaire CTE Scramble already.
You know. Football. Handegg.
Ew, but yes.
Ew.
May the odds be ever in your favor...
What the actual...
I literally did a triple-take thinking I ate the onion and then realized it's not fake. Holy SHIT. Time for the 2A.
The more I watch Andor, the more I feel like a need a gun.
Coincidence, really.
And they called me a fool for having Hunger Games on my bingo card.
Executions will be televised one day.
I know that I will have grim satisfaction while watching.
Then they deport the winner anyway, because citizenship doesn't matter to Trump.
There are really people out there who support this shit who think they deserve to be regarded as good people just because they're friendly on an interpersonal level.
The odds of Mr. Beast being the ringleader for this particular circus is high.
Of course the admin supports dehumanizing people for entertainment. How about reducing prices on something. Like bread.
That's all they really know anyways, reality TV. Bit of a misnomer really.
I remember during the zelensky ambush at the white house that DJT said it would make great TV as well.
Clown country.
FOREIGNERS OUT! SCHLINGENSIEFS CONTAINER
Satirising reality TV shows, "Big Brother" especially, a dozen asylum seekers were surveilled by a multitude of cameras, could be fed and watched by passer-by's and two were thrown out of the country through web-voting. The way fascism looks in the 21st century: Bright. Sensational. Interactive. Funny - and frightening.
20th century fascism was characterized by a thick layer of self importance and respectability to hide a vulgar core.
21st century fascism is just vulgar through and through.
Scenes envisaged include one in San Francisco, where the immigrants are sent down a mine to collect the most gold
In Cape Canaveral, Florida, the hub of NASA, contestants would rush to build and launch a rocket.
In Hayward, Wisconsin, they'd struggle to keep their balance on logs.
I thought you were being facetious
Just adding some relevant facts. Not the onion.
sigh
We deserve Trump. He truly represents us.
Well, 40% of us
Squick Game
May the odds be ever in your favor.
God damn, being true... I consider myself quite the imaginative and creative person, but these folks have me beat.
Still, props to these people - if they applied all this creativity and effort for good instead of evil, we'd already be living in an utopia, there wouldn't be hunger or poverty in the world, I dare say. Instead we're gliding down into dystopia.
Just when you think we've hit rock bottom they'll yet again prove you wrong - as they say, "where there's a will, there's a way", especially for evil.
I have the outline of a plot where Kristi Noem gets spit roasted by Mike Lee and Mike Johnson.
You mean like... Over a fire?
Does she die at the end? Can season 2 be MTG?
I miss when my country wasn't parodying itself
this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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